Word: aback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House Jumping Joe gave reporters a mimeographed statement. It said: "It is my personal belief that Taft right now is secretly hoping for an American defeat in Korea as his last desperate chance for re-election." Even Democratic National Chairman William Boyle was taken aback by this know-nothing assault, but he recovered himself to predict: "Ferguson will walk away with the election...
What Statement? On Thursday last week the Chicago Sun-Times directed its Washington correspondent to ask the State Department if it would change the hour of the Monday release date on.Mac-Arthur's statement. State was taken aback. It did not know that MacArthur had made any statement on Formosa or anything else. Acheson telephoned the White House, which knew nothing about 'it either. Neither, as it turned out, did the Department of Defense. Washington officialdom went into a flap, trying to get hold of the text. But it was not until Saturday morning, by which time...
...said that? asked Harry Truman, taken aback...